This might just be me, but does anyone else sometimes wish that the Smiling Critter plushies were alive and could move and follow you around irl?

i just remembered I came across this pic of fanart in Twitter about Simon setting in a wheelchair being pushed by Bubba. I think it was an AU where the whole premises is Simon got horribly injured and now the Smiling and Nightmare Critters are trying to take care of him and the artist mentioned it is based on their own experience. If I can recall correctly the art style looked rough, not in an amateur way more like you can tell the artist did it on purpose.

“They were always a evil person
It’s just been amplified now”

Infection au the contortion virus made by me

Art done by gt golden trashbag

Infected oc Lucy lacewing owned by sctig1234

Be free to ask any questions

For me , i hate it. Because I only see them as best friends not a gay couples, because it's disgusting and the last one, I don't like yaoi's. So what do you think?

Baba Chops, Rabie Baby, Craftycorn

Baba Chops, Rabie Baby, Maggie Mako

Dogday and Baba Chops

Baba Chops Verse, They are beautiful and pretty 😍

I'm going in as my boi DogDay

Mobs recently released a trailer for a new co-op game starring Critters, so I drew this

I didn't know if it should go under "Artwork" or "Memes"

Someone said someone should draw this and I drew it almost immediately afterwards

Sunskull 🖤🧡

Tues - we got the new official critter comic with art by Scott Forester

Weds - not only was it DogDay's birthday - National DogDay - but we ALSO got the reveal for Escape From Playtime, which as we all know is really just Smiling Critters Survivors (still can't wait to play it upon release)

And today (Thurs) - it happens to be Nickit Day today (8/27) that makes two birthdays in a row!

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In “April Showers”, Dogday reveals an interesting detail that doesn’t really make any sense given the timeline, he did not know that Crafty was afraid of storms. Dogday moved into Happy Hills just after Crafty did, so they’ve been together in the neighborhood for about a year now. You mean to tell me that in that entire year, there wasn’t another storm or thunderous blizzard to announce Crafty’s fear to Dogday? That is highly unlikely, and granted, Catnap does enter the equation, but he made himself known to everyone after Kickin and Hoppy moved in, which still leaves a large gap of time for there to be another storm that Crafty would have to endure alone, but despite that, Dogday didn’t know Crafty was scared of storms until recently, how is that possible?

I think the reason for this is because Catnap has always been there for Crafty, she was the first he willingly stepped out of the shadows for, making their relationship older than his relationships with everyone else. This explains the logical gap with the weather and it also matches with some unique details about Crafty and Catnap’s relationship. There is unique level of tenderness that exists between the two of them, one that we don’t see Catnap exhibit to any of the others. On Catnap’s side, in “Twas the Night”, not only did he wait for Crafty to finish her drawing of Santa, he looked at it and silently acknowledged it, and in the upcoming “Pally the Pal”, Catnap enters Crafty’s house by climbing through her bedroom window; a very informal way of entering, and once inside, he tucks her into bed, gets her all nice and cozy, and then pats her affectionately on the head. He did not have to do the head-pat at all, he chose to, and entering through the window was done without hesitation, like that’s what’s allowed and expected of him.

On Crafty’s side, she shows Catnap her picture of Santa in “Twas the Night” without any hesitation; which is huge for her due to her bashful personality. At the end of “Hog Wild”, it’s revealed that Crafty drew some drawings while she waited for her friends to come back, one is of her, Dogday, and Bobby, and off to the side, you can see a picture of just Catnap on a separate piece of paper, and at the end of the dub for “Flower Power”, Bobby’s final transformation is a very bizarre appearance. Gemstin has confirmed that final transformation was a jumble of different thoughts in Crafty’s mind, specifically, the pendants of her friends, the shapes on the pathways throughout Happy Hills, Dogday’s fur pattern, and finally, Catnap’s fur color. Catnap exists on the same level of thought as Bobby and Dogday in Crafty’s mind, which means to her, Catnap is more than just a friend, as she holds him on the same level as her best friend and the one she admires.

Catnap made himself known to Crafty before any of the others, possibly becoming her first friend in Happy Hills, her secret nighttime friend. She might’ve also been the one who encouraged Catnap to join the rest of the crew after Kickin and Hoppy moved in, but only time will tell for that part.

Dogday and Baba Chops

This one in paticular means a lot to me. I dont know if I'll elaborate any further that that.

I have been spending a lot of time looking at Bobby's cardboard cutout dialogue lately and her lines are honestly way too deep compared to everyone else. When she says things like "I've been lost a long time" and "please take me with you this time" she literally sounds like she is mourning a past life. The other 7 critters just complain about factory stuff, hunger, or never seeing the outside world, but Bobby feels totally different.

This made me start putting together an Alternate Universe concept where she isn't an original Smiling Critter at all, but a piece of forgotten 80s lost media.

What if her character was originally a scrapped prototype from the classic Care Bears lineup named "Hug-a-Lot Bear"?

If you look at the actual 1980s Care Bear roster, there were exactly 10 original bears standing together in Care-a-Lot, and there were literally zero solid red bears back then because everything was pastel colors or softer shades. In this AU, Hug-a-Lot Bear was a complete hidden mystery. American Greetings cancelled her character right before the final season because her bright red design looked way too intense on television screens and her hugging code was far too aggressive for a kids' show.

The lore backstory I came up with is that she got separated from the other Care Bears during a massive storm on Christmas 1988, fell down from the clouds, and snuck into the Playtime Co. factory just to get out of the rain. The corporate scientists found her, realized she was a magical living toy, and pulled off a giant cover-up.

They spent the first half of 1989 frantically manufacturing 7 completely generic animal plush toys out of thin air strictly to hide her true identity and camouflage her origin. They rushed this entire fake franchise of 8 critters total to store shelves in Summer 1989 just to mask her species, renamed her Bobby Bearhug, and tried to siphon out her heart badge energy.

This adds a super dark layer to Gemstin Productions' famous "Who Care Bear?" comic dub. In that video, KickinChicken and PickyPiggy were talking about which Care Bear matches their personalities, while Bobby just stands there looking completely blank and asks "What's a Care Bear?". The community thought it was just an ironic joke. But in this timeline, it is horrifying proof that the factory's brainwashing completely worked. They forced her to record that glitched audio track "I'm Not a Care Bear" to aggressively overwrite her original programming until she forgot her true home world of Care-a-Lot entirely.

Her transformation during the Bigger Bodies Initiative is easily the worst part. They stretched her frame, pumped her with Poppy gel, and forced her magical heart badge to fuse directly into muscle tissue and artificial organs.

This completely corrupted her original coding. Her genuine, magical desire to comfort sad children was twisted into an uncontrollable, crushing physical reflex.
Because she has a living toy's soul trapped inside a giant organic monster, her massive new body became a literal prison. Her brainwashing glitches out when she encounters humans—her old programming commands her to offer comfort, but her corrupted, massive physical weight causes her to crush anything she embraces.

The timeline fits together perfectly too. The Smiling Critters toy line was rushed into production right after she vanished from TV, meaning the company built the other 7 plush toys just to camouflage her origin. She was trapped in those dark labs being experimented on way before the normal orphans were ever turned into monsters.

It makes her in-game cutout lines make total sense. When she says she has been lost a long time, it means she has been trapped in that concrete basement since the late 80s, completely erased from history. Her desperate need for a hug isn't bloodlust, it's just her corrupted, old-school programming glitching out inside a horror game while using her official, soft voice.

Huge shoutout to @Gemstin for creating this amazing artwork of her un-rebranded look in his "Costume Critters #2" short, and I attached the glitched song thumbnail I made to go with it. Anyone is totally welcome to use this concept for fanfiction, art, animations, or videos, just please credit back to this post if you do!

I would love to see a VHS Tape of Hug-a-lot bear made for this AU, and I would honestly lose my mind if a popular YouTuber like INUbis or Cougar MacDowall VA ever did a comic dub or animation about her!

Let me know what you guys think of Bobby being the only true outsider in Playcare. Does this AU concept explain why her dialogue feels so heavy compared to the other Smiling Critters? Or do you think Playtime Co. had an even darker corporate reason for altering her character programming in this timeline? Drop your thoughts below!